Carmen Croghan often looks at the state of her British addiction and wonders how it got so out of hand. A part-time reference library staffer, she spends an inordinate amount of time watching just about any British series she can track down.
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After last week’s relatively straightforward mess, the second half of Guilt turns up the twistiness. Let’s start with a flashback, where Sheila learns Walter left his estate to her, except for his vinyl collection, which goes to his niece, but disorganized solicitor Henry McKinnon can’t locate her.
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Set in Edinburgh, Guilt starts with high-powered attorney Max McCall (Mark Bonnar) on his way home from a wedding reception driven by his younger brother Jake (Jamie Sives), neither in a state to be behind the wheel. Suddenly, a pedestrian appears in the middle of the street, and Jake cannot
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I don’t know about you but this installment of Us was quite a rollercoaster for me. Douglas trying so hard to show how he can change, witnessing the unbearable pain he and Connie suffered early in their marriage and the sadness for both of them of letting go of
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When I saw that Masterpiece was planning to broadcast the TV adaptation of David Nicholls’s 2014 novel Us, I immediately put my hand up to write the recaps. I had read the book and listened to the audiobook narrated beautifully by actor David Haig so I was anxious to
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This month, the sixth season of the wildly popular British police procedural Line of Duty made its American debut on BritBox. Each series features a guest star who finds themselves in hot water with the show’s anti-corruption unit helmed by Superintendent Ted Hastings (Adrian Dunbar). Joining the ranks of
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The month of April has been a tough one for Anglophiles. Of course, we all just witnessed the funeral of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh over the weekend. Last week, we got the heartbreaking news that actress Helen McCrory had died after a battle with cancer at the age of
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The final episode of Bloodlands Season 1 reveals the answers to some, but not all, of our questions. It’s been a twisty, sometimes confusing, journey but before we get to all that, let’s remind ourselves of what transpired last time. Tom Brannick heads the investigation into the disappearance
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After last week’s jaw-dropping cliffhanger, Bloodlands’ Tom Brannick has a lot of track covering (and perhaps some finger-pointing misdirection) to do to get out of the mess he’s made. Let’s refresh our memories on the wild ride that transpired in episode two, shall we? The remains discovered
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Acorn TV’s Bloodlands continues and, as promised, the series' second episode turns up the tension with twists, turns, and head-scratching cliffhangers. But before we get into all of that messiness, let’s review what occurred last week. DCI Tom Brannick (played by James Nesbitt) has been called in
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British actress Carey Mulligan has been gracing big and small screens with notable performances since 2005. The wide range of genres on her resume, from classic literary adaptations and indie black comedies to TV crime drama and wartime tragedies, suggests that Mulligan isn’t afraid of an acting challenge (or
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Welcome to the first of four episode recaps for the new Acorn TV thriller, Bloodlands. We’re promised a twisty cat-and-mouse game that also ponders moral questions about the balance between justice for past crimes and protecting peace in the present. The first episode has quite a lot of exposition,
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When you hear the name James Nesbitt, you may think of any one of the Northern Irish actor's dozens of film and television roles over the past three decades, including Cold Feet, Peter Jackson's The Hobbit trilogy, Waking Ned Devine, and The Missing. His career has